Re: Re: run-outline-bigloo.scm fails

  Hello,

  thank you for explaining the problem.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:05:20 -0800 (PST)
[email protected] wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> Both errors are of the kind:
> 
> > # *** ERROR:bigloo:ssax:xml->sxml:expand
> > # error occured while expansing the call -- 
> > (ssax:make-parser NEW-LEVEL-SEED (lambda (el ...
> 
> That is, the error has occurred while expanding the macro
> ssax:make-parser. Alas, that is the problem with Bigloo. Bigloo does
> _not_ fully support R5RS macros.

  The Bigloo developers aware of this problem, but, as far as I know,
they have no resources to fix the problem. Pity.

> It uses the macro-expander by Dorai
> Sitaram, who specifically says that his macro-expander is intended
> only for simple syntax-rules (and doesn't support nested macros nor full
> hygiene). Now that Gambit 4 supports syntax-rules to the fullest
> extent (via R. Kent Dybvig's portable macro-expander), Bigloo is the
> only major Scheme system out there that does not comply with R5RS
> regarding the macros.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 	Oleg
> 



-- 
Oleg Paraschenko


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